Monday Newsletter #10

Yo, Welcome to the 10th edition of the LOST FR8 newsletter.

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving with your families.

Last week’s poll revealed stuffing as the number one Thanksgiving food item. I’m satisfied with that result. Stuffing rocks.

Anyway, we’re back for another poll this week:

The holiday season is truly upon us. Here’s to hoping it’s a fruitful one for all of us!

-Reed

🚨 What is LOST FR8???

LOST FR8 enables carriers of all sizes to effectively market their services to their current customers as well as our growing community of brokers and shippers.

Our goal is to make it easy to find quality carriers by giving them tools to market themselves.

🚚 LOST FR8 Carrier of the Week

VANS FREIGHT SOLUTIONS - Conway, SC

Check out Van’s lostfr8.com profile

• Founded in 2015 by Van Gearing

• Van is an owner operator running a 53’ air ride dry van

• Operates in zone 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

• TWIC Card

• Tanker Endorsed

• From Van: “ I grew up in a truck. My father was an owner operator for 23 years then opened a produce brokerage company in South Texas. He never wanted me to drive a truck so I did heavy industrial maintenance for 21 years. 5 years with one company and 16 with another before deciding I needed a change. I’m sure now that truck driving was in my blood.”

• From Reed: “My favorite carrier to work with in my carrier rep days was an owner op. I met Van on Twitter over the summer in a live spaces event put on by Kevin Rutherford. Obviously, I never had the pleasure of working with him as a rep, but in talking to him over the months I am certain he would be the first person I’d call if I needed a load done. He’s a great guy and is super easy to talk to. Give him a call!”

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🎨 LOST FR8 Updates

• Last week, we released the first version of our newly redesigned internal account dashboard. Carriers

• This week, we’ve made it so carriers see Newtrul load matches directly in the Capacity tab on the dashboard

• We also added a map to the homepage. It features a handful of recently updated capacity units

🐟 Freight Caviar Corner

• Freight Caviar’s main story this week covers women in freight

🏭 Broker & Shipper Stuff

Have opportunities you want to get in front of the LOST FR8 carrier base?

Send Reed an email to have it featured in our weekly “hot loads” mailer that goes to our customers.

🎶 Freight Gong

• Freightgong.com has been rung over 10 million times since last week. We have some very dedicated gongers.

• Gnosis Freight still runs the show, but we’re seeing some new faces on the leaderboard

FreightX

• For the uninitiated, FreightX is a section of X (formerly Twitter), where myself and many others congregate throughout the day. It’s been around a while, but recently has taken off. We’ve got some serious movers & shakers participating, too. You should join.

• Recently, I wrote a post about discovered where road salt in Boston came from. Check it out